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July 21, 2010 / intellectual property, trade, WIPO, wto
Tags: intellectual property, knowledge, WIPO, wto
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Will Global Health Break the Back of the G20?
Comments OffBack in November, I blogged about what the G20 might mean for health, and argued that drawing any substantive conclusions back then was premature. The issue of the G20 in health was taken up in a big way by the new Global Health Security Centre at Chatham House which organized a one day conference on ‘What’s next for the G20? Investing in health and development’.
For those who were not able to attend I thought it would be useful to highlight the issues that were debated.
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Survival Migration: An Agenda for the Commonwealth
Comments OffMay 31, 2010 / climate change, migrationThe Commonwealth comprises a significant number of states that will be affected by the migratory consequences of climate change, including a number of small island states. On 14 May the Ramphal Commission on Migration and Development heard evidence from academics about the implications of migration for the Commonwealth, exploring the possibility that migration – or certain aspects of migration – might offer the organisation a unifying theme for the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Australia in 2011. As I argued to the Commission, it is important that the focus remains not on ‘climate refugees’ or ‘environmental displacement’ per se but rather on the broader issue of ’survival migration’.
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May 24, 2010 / health
In the debate about how to develop a long-term sustainable response to HIV/AIDS in Africa, the behaviour of donors has to be taken into account. So too does the difficult question of who should decide and be responsible for how public funding is allocated within a country.
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March 4, 2010 / aid
In the GEG blog series on the (dead) aid debate, Lindsay Whitfield has argued that the central concern should not be whether to give more or less aid, but about the objectives of aid and how it is given. In this final contribution to the series, Whitfield proposes a new vision for foreign aid and a set of concrete reforms to achieve it.
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March 1, 2010 / aid
In an earlier contribution to this GEG blog series The (Dead) Aid Debate, Lindsay Whitfield looked at macro-level relationships and effects of aid dependency in African countries. But, she writes, the problems with aid also have to do with micro-level relationship and the everyday practices of aid agencies and how aid is given. Concrete examples of ‘aid in action’ can tell volumes about why aid has such a limited impact on economic development and poverty reduction.
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The Real Issues in the aid debate, part 2: Politics
Comments OffFebruary 26, 2010 / aidOne of the real issues neglected in much (if not all) of the debate on aid and Africa is the way in which aid relationships have developed over decades of dependence and their unintended political consequences. Another issue is how the international aid system has expanded and entrenched itself in many African countries. As part of GEG’s (Dead) Aid Debate blog series, Lindsay Whitfield reframes the aid debate around the real issue: politics.
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February 19, 2010 / aid
Earlier in the GEG blog series The (Dead) Aid Debate, I reviewed the contributions of Dambisa Moyo, Bill Easterly and Yash Tandon. While all raise important issues, they do not raise what I consider to be the real issues. They do not put on the table the most pressing and important issues regarding economic development, aid and Africa: the economics, the politics and the aid system. The aid debate needs to be reframed around these three central pillars. I will address each in coming days, beginning here with the economics.
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The Aid Critic: Yash Tandon
Comments OffFebruary 17, 2010 / aidIn this final review of aid critics for GEG’s blog series The (Dead) Aid Debate, Lindsay Whitfield examines the contributions of Ugandan international political economist Yash Tandon in Ending Aid Dependence (2008). Yash Tandon gets us on the right track, writes Whitfield, by arguing that the conceptual starting point is not aid but development. However, he also brings us back to two polarized debates that have been ongoing since the 1980s which trap us in a cul-de-sac mindset.
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February 15, 2010 / climate change
GEG guest blogger Ryan Hogarth reviews the outcomes of the Copenhagen Summit for climate change governance. While the substance may be thin, he argues that the shift in decision-making procedure is significant. This post was the winner of the GEG blog competition ‘Governing Climate Change After Copenhagen’.
